Meet Our Striking New Snow leopard

Meet Leika our striking new feline resident, the snow leopard. After much anticipation, the one-year old female will join the zoo’s 17-year old male snow leopard, Karesh.

Leika arrived from Zoo Kameltheatre in Austria and is now settling into her new surroundings. Snow leopards are part of the Species Survival Plan (SSP) which helps to ensure a wide range of genetic diversity and may safeguard the species from becoming extinct.

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At the Calgary Zoo, we have endless stories to share about our animals, our people and our conservation work. Whether we are inspiring our visitors to love nature, saving species in western Canada from extinction or working with scientists on the other side of the globe, our ultimate goal is simple: to help wildlife and keep it wild.